"The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief.…"

"The man who is not a Abolitionist is a slaveholder."

"I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it."

"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

"Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is…"