Free States Quotes
- I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
- Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes
- The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
- Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. — Demosthenes
- The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have… — Lysander Spooner
- The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits… — Robert Toombs