But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.