Abandon Quote by Louis Wigfall

“The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa, or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge of the wants or feelings…

— James Madison

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have…

— Abraham Lincoln

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void,…

— William H. Seward

“Here then is an infallible criterion, by which the nation may judge of the intentions of those who govern it ... if they corrupt…

— Emer De Vattel

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

“Slavery, like energy, does not disappear; it only changes from one form into another.”

— C.B. Smith

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than…

— Patrick Henry

“It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst…

— Frédéric Bastiat

No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet…

— Lysander Spooner

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon