Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.