"The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small,..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.”

“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”

“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.”

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

“The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.”

“Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.”

“My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.”

“Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”

“Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.”