I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

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.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

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.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.