Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

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

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.