The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.