Abraham Lincoln Morality Quote – Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal…
Abraham Lincoln Morality Quote Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to […]
Abraham Lincoln Institution Quote – When Southern people tell us they…
Abraham Lincoln Institution Quote When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the […]
Abraham Lincoln Grievance Quote – There is no grievance that is…
Abraham Lincoln Grievance Quote There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
Abraham Lincoln Perspective Quote – I can express all my views…
Abraham Lincoln Perspective Quote I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln Equality Quote – I should like to know if,…
Abraham Lincoln Equality Quote I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other […]
Abraham Lincoln Inclination Quote – I have said a hundred times,…
Abraham Lincoln Inclination Quote I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. […]
Abraham Lincoln Opposition Quote – A living dog is better than…
Abraham Lincoln Opposition Quote ‘A living dog is better than a dead lion.’ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.
Abraham Lincoln Amendment Quote – Why was the amendment, expressly declaring…
Abraham Lincoln Amendment Quote Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln Extinction Quote – Either the opponents of slavery will…
Abraham Lincoln Extinction Quote Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old […]
Abraham Lincoln Union Quote – I do not expect the Union…
Abraham Lincoln Union Quote I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.