Our destiny is largely in our hands.

The opposite of compromise is character.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.