I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.