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.

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

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

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.