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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

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.

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.

TV is all new to me because I came from features.

We are powerful magical beings.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

I'm running on hate. When the energy from that ebbs I'll be worthless.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.