It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

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

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

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.

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

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.