I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pre...tty well known.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature--opposition to it, is [in?] his love of justice.... Repeal the Missouri comp...romise--repeal all compromises--repeal the declaration of independence--repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But it chanced the other day that I scented a white water- lily.... It is the emblem of purity.... What confirmation of our hopes ...is in the fragrance of this flower! I shall not so soon despair of the world for it, notwithstanding slavery, and the cowardice and want of principle of Northern men. It suggests what kinds of laws have prevailed longest and widest, and still prevail, and that the time may come when man's deeds will smell as sweet. Such is the odor which the plant emits.... It reminds me that Nature has been partner to no Missouri compromise. I scent no compromise in the fragrance of the water-lily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They're two good old friends of mine. I call them Constitution and The Bill of Rights. A most dependable team for long journeys. T...hen I've got another one called Missouri Compromise. And a Supreme Court--a fine, dignified horse, though you have to push him on every now and then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free State...s alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You and your spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in the history of your child's development, but as o...pportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teach your children the art of and value in negotiation, and to demonstrate your ability to empathize, your willingness to compromise, and your readiness to apologize for hurt you have inflicted on others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ou...ght not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »