Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.