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.

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.

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.

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

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Cecil: “A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.

Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.