The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

There is a way to bring peace and harmony to yourself even in the most difficult of times.

You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.