Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

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

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.

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

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.