I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Idea is a noble one — an idea that fills and expands all generous souls; the idea of equality — the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws, as they all are equal before the Divine tribunal and Divine laws.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.