Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

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

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.

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

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.

That which is not just is not law.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.