William Seward: “Nevertheless, the republican cause, however odious in Europe, was our national cause.”

The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

Stoicism, that had no charity for error, never converted any human society to virtue; Christianity, that remembers the true nature of man, has encompassed a large portion of the globe.

Slavery therefore must be restrained, and, without violence or injustice, must be abolished.

Let it be remembered, that it has ever been the pride and the boast of America, that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature.