They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

All socialism involves slavery.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.