[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

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

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

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

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.