Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

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

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.