Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

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.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.