I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.