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

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

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

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

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

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