Best Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

— Edward Ball

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

— Salmon P. Chase

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

— Ben Nelson