"We think the Dred Scott decision is..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. 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.”

“That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.”

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

“Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.”

“The law is reason unaffected by desire.”

“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”

“A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.”

“Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.”

“While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.”