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

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.

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

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

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.