War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Prevent ... our friends from demoralizing themselves, and our cause, by entertaining propositions for compromise of any sort, on 'slavery extention.' ... On that point hold firm, as with a chain of steel.