Day Quotes

Whether we will or not, the question of Slavery is THE question, the all absorbing topic of the day.

We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.

The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day - for burning fire-crackers!!!

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.