At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.