Slavery Quotations | Page 3

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways... socialism is a new form of slavery.

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

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.