Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never b….

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day..

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature..

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one ….

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others..

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly..

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to othe….

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that ….

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose..

No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on ….

...what we need is action - action!.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do ….

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language..

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule..

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to han….

I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised p….

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young..

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!.

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia..