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

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

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

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

And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.