Our Constitution Rests On The Good Sense

We Understand Now, We've Been Made To Understand, And To Embrace The Understanding That Who We Are Is Who We Were.

The Extremes Of Opulence And Of Want Are More Remarkable, And More Constantly Obvious, In [great Britain] Than In Any Other Place That I Ever Saw.

The Experience Of All Former Ages Had Shown That Of All Human Governments, Democracy Was The Most Unstable, Fluctuating And Short-lived.

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.