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.

That which is not just is not law.

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

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

A man's country is the world.