 I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! |
| You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. |
| We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! |
| 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. |
| Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? |
| That which is not just is not law. |
| I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. |
| The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. |
| Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. |
| Our country is the world - our countrymen are all mankind. |
| Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. |
| The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. |
| The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. |
| My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. |
