I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.