Slavery will not be overthrown without excitement, a most tremendous excitement.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

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

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

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

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