"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."

"Influence is not government."

"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."