Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

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

That which is not just is not law.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

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

Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

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