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.

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

But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

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.

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.

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.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.