No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

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

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

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.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

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.