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

A man's country is the world.

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

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

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

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.

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.