Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.