Slave Quotations | Page 2

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?