25 quotes
For Lincoln, the principle of human equality, "that all men are created equal", did not admit exceptions.
Is Diversity Good? (2003)
But South Carolina does not repeat the preceding language in the earlier document: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
Now, throughout history, the right to coin money has been a symbol of sovereignty. If states do not have the right to coin money, they are not sovereign.
Relativism, positivism, and nihilism — modern doctrines which mock wisdom and scorn virtue — have at the dawn of the twenty-first century come to dominate.
Before In History (2004)
Karl Marx; the great enemy of human freedom.
Interview with Charles Kesler (2014)
If we are to have a foundation upon which to continue to build a more perfect union, we must return unequivocally, as Lincoln returned, to the source of our greatness in the American Founding.
God Bless America (2008)
The slave trade that developed between North America and the west coast of Africa is one of the great horror stories of western civilization... The events of this story are morally indefensible.
Diversity in the service of freedom might be a very good thing. Diversity in the service of slavery might be a very bad thing.
Is Diversity Good? (2003)
What led manyness nearly to destroy oneness was the presence of slavery in many of the states.
Is Diversity Good? (2003)
Marx saw morality as the great enemy of human well-being... Karl Marx; the great enemy of human freedom.
"Diversity" as an abstraction has no meaning. Today, however, it means racial preference and nothing else. A commitment to diversity, apart from the ends it may serve, is absurd.
Is Diversity Good? (2003)
[T]he one unforgivable sin, according to dominant Southern public opinion, was moral condemnation of slavery.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
You can not have free government if you can not bind the people who participate in the government to accept the results of the election.
The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002)
[T]he generation of the Founding Fathers, who certainly knew the story of Noah and his sons, nonetheless believed in the equality of the races.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
According to Davis it did not require a Galileo or a Harvey (or a Darwin) to discover the natural inferiority of the Negro. All that was necessary was a visit to the District of Columbia jail!
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
In 1860 Senator Wilson, like Lincoln, could not ask for recognition of more than the black man's natural rights. But he showed in dramatic fashion that his argument, like Lincoln's, applied ultimately to all rights, civil and political no less than natural.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
The "pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence didn't mean radical individualism. It meant the pursuit of virtue.
Interview with Peter Robinson (2009)
That the equality of human souls in the sight of God ought to be translated into a political structure of equal political rights has come to be regarded as the most authentic interpretation of the Gospel itself. Slavery, and the imposition of all arbitrary forms of inequality of man by man, has come to be seen as demeaning to the souls of God's creation.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)
The Democratic Party in 1860 called for the annexation of Cuba... There were 100,000 slaves in Cuba, and Cuba was the place that slaves were still being brought from Africa.
[P]reservation of the Union was not a partisan policy.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)