The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
Abraham LincolnI did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
Abraham LincolnThis is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
Abraham Lincoln