No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.