They Who Study Mankind With

To Make A Contented Slave It Is Necessary To Make A Thoughtless One. It Is Necessary To Darken The Moral And Mental Vision And, As Far As Possible, To Annihilate The Power Of Reason.

My Great And Exceeding Joy Over These Stupendous Achievements, Especially Over The Abolition Of Slavery (which Had Been The Deepest Desire And The Great Labor Of My Life), Was Slightly Tinged With A Feeling Of Sadness.

The Limits Of Tyrants Are Prescribed By The Endurance Of Those Whom They Oppose.

The Marriage Institution Cannot Exist Among Slaves, And One Sixth Of The Population Of Democratic America Is Denied It's Privileges By The Law Of The Land. What Is To Be Thought Of A Nation Boasting Of Its Liberty, Boasting Of It's Humanity, Boasting Of Its Christianity, Boasting Of Its Love Of Justice And Purity, And Yet Having Within Its Own Borders Three Millions Of Persons Denied By Law The Right Of Marriage?

Let Me Give You A Word Of The Philosophy Of Reform. The Whole History Of The Progress Of Human Liberty Shows That All Concessions Yet Made To Her August Claims, Have Been Born Of Earnest Struggle. The Conflict Has Been Exciting, Agitating, All-absorbing, And For The Time Being, Putting All Other Tumults To Silence. It Must Do This Or It Does Nothing. If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress.