Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The trouble today,” he wrote, “is that the Communist world understands unity but not liberty, while the free world understands liberty but not unity. Eventual victory may be won by the first of the two sides to achieve the synthesis of both liberty and unity.

"The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

We must advance ... because Christianity and freedom are incompatible

Slavery is wrong in its effect upon white people and free labor; it is the only thing that threatens the Union. It makes what Senator Seward has been much abused for calling an 'irrepressible conflict'. When they get ready to settle it, we hope they will let us know. Public opinion settles every question here, any policy to be permanent must have public opinion at the bottom, something in accordance with the philosophy of the human mind as it is. The property basis will have its weight. The love of property and a consciousness of right or wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often make a man's course seem crooks, his conduct a riddle.

Liberty and equality are in essence contradictory.

I do not mean to discuss the question how far slavery and farming are incompatible. Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of the former.

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

You cannot separate peace and freedom .Because noone can be at peace unless he has his freedom .