I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.