 A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. |
| The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. |
| To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. |
| The soul that is within me no man can degrade. |
| At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. |
| The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. |
| Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. |
| Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. |
| Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. |
| Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. |
| I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. |
| If there is no struggle, there is no progress. |
| Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. |
| I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave. |
| America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. |
