The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.