Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

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

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

I had as well be killed running as die standing

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

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

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.