The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

There is a devil inside each one of us. Some just know to hide it too well.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.