Abraham Lincoln: “it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering…”

but whereas information has recently been received which affords reasonable grounds to expect that Her Britannic Majesty's Government and the executive and legislative branches of the government of Canada have taken and will continue to…

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.