Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the…

I accuse her of legalizing, on an enormous scale, licentiousness, fraud, cruelty and murder.

But the moment he holds them [slaves] as property, however kindly he may treat them, he is a man-stealer, whom the apostle classes among ‘murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers.’

I will say, finally, that I despair of the republic while slavery exists therein.

I cherish as strong a love for the land of my nativity as any man living. I am proud of her civil, political and religious institutions — of her high advancement in science, literature and the arts — of her general prosperity and grandeur. …

The right to enjoy liberty is inalienable. To invade it is to usurp the prerogative of Jehovah. Every man has a right to his own body—to the products of his own labor—to the protection of law—and to the common advantages of society. It is …

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