No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

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

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.