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

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

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

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.

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

Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

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