Congress Quote by Walter E. Williams

“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

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen.

— Rush Limbaugh

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

— Annette Gordon-Reed

What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty - encapsulated by the phrase 'no man can serve two…

— John C. Bogle

The president has an obligation to serve all the people of America.

— Karl Rove

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the…

— Jefferson Davis

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their…

— William Branch Giles

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen…

— Howard Zinn