The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.