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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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..

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 ….

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

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..

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..

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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….

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 ….

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….