There is a higher law than the Constitution.

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.

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.

See this abdicated beast, once kingOf them all, nibble his claws:Not anger enough left—no, nor despair—To break his teeth on the bars.

I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

I used to make albums because I wasn't touring, and so I thought, "This is the best way for people to find out about me.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

I don't expect to be thin, but I'd like to feel a bit healthier.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.