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

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.

The worst feelings are the warm, anxious burning that portends your heart breaking followed by the wave of numbness that asphyxiates your soul.

Those who travel outward seek completeness in things

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.

I do think in the present state of both the Church and society we have a long way to go toward accepting and loving others that look or act differently than we do.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.