To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

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

A man's country is the world.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.