Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

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.

A man's country is the world.

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