The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

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

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

It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.

Revolutions never go backward.