The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

A man's country is the world.