I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

Liberty is not less a blessing, because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.