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

Revolutions never go backward.

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

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 deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

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