The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!