But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.