Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.