In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

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

There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.