Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!