Quotes by Slavery If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Abraham Lincoln slavery civil-war presidential I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Abraham Lincoln slavery purpose believe Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. Abraham Lincoln slave-labor slavery inspiration We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. Abraham Lincoln deals slavery want If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Abraham Lincoln be-a-slave slavery giving We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it. Abraham Lincoln slavery wish thinking My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery. Abraham Lincoln slavery struggle war Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. Abraham Lincoln slavery constitution law You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. Abraham Lincoln slavery abstract knows The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes. Abraham Lincoln traders slavery class I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. Abraham Lincoln slavery littles war We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. Abraham Lincoln slavery slave What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery? Abraham Lincoln prosperity slavery liberty I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring. Abraham Lincoln slavery wish men But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself. Abraham Lincoln slavery men people When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln slavery community judging This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Abraham Lincoln slavery would-be world An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. Abraham Lincoln inspection slavery constitution We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself. Abraham Lincoln slavery unions believe Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again. Abraham Lincoln slavery done long 1234567891011»