"You think slavery is right and ought..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”

“A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.”

“A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.”

“To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.”

“For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.”

“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

“The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.”

“Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.”