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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.

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

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

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

That which is not just is not law.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

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

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

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

I am in earnest
I will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.

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

We are the friends of reform; but that is not reform, which, in curing one evil, threatens to inflict a thousand others.

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

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

A man's country is the world.

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

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.