I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.