Political Quotes

This ruinous system of large farms cultivated by slaves showed its effects in Italy, eighteen hundred years ago, when the Roman empire was at the height of its grandeur.

Not the most fertile soil, not mines of silver and gold, can make a nation rich, without intelligence.

Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.

Here the two systems have worked side by side for ages, under such equal circumstances, both political and physical, and with such ample time and opportunity for each to work out its proper effects, that all must admit the experiment to be…