"Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still 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 speak.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.”
“I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.”
“A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.”
More on Human Nature
“Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest”
“That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.”
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.”
More on Slavery
“All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.”
“We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.”
“This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.”