Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound, and seen in every thing.

Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.