Acquired Quote by David Wilmot

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them,…

— Robert Toombs

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation.…

— Jefferson Davis

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

— Donald Trump

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed…

— Stephen Ambrose

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

— Salmon P. Chase

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should…

— William H. Seward

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

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

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in nobody's interest…

— James Carafano