The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
That which is not just is not law.
I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a p...
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have...
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as y...
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is his will that we should hold absolute mastery over time, so as to devote it ma...
Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.