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

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

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