The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.