But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.

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

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

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

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

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 proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.