True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased..

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights..

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers..

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards ….

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government..

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system..

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be..

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations..

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals..

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous..

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it..

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts..

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do ….

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden h….

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protec….

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society..

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing ….

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to re….

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new tho….

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of hu….

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric..