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

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

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

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

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.