I love the Constitution. It is enshrined in my heart. I love it better than any dozen Democrats in the land do tonight. Speech (1860)
The equality of the human race is the pivot upon which our government rests and resolves. Speech (1862)
The doors will be forever barred and bolted against those miserable Democrats who scoff the rights of man. Speech (1860)
Now comes the objection which you hear in the mouths of Democrats everywhere. Negro equality! Negro equality! The "Black Republicans" are in favor of negro equality! Speech (1860)
The Republican Party is for positive intervention. They propose, as our fathers did, to erect a wall of intervention, of prohibition, and station an angel of liberty at the gates in that wall, who shall keep watch and ward there day and night, and guard the territories against the entrance of slavery, as the cherubim of God kept sin out of Eden. Speech (1860)