Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.