The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

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

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

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

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.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.