I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations….
Every man is the original, rightful, and absolute owner of his own body...and can only part from his self ownership, by the commission of a crime.
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
It should be remembered that in the order of Divine Providence the man who puts one end of a chain around the ankle of his fellow man will find the other end around his own neck.
Let the nation try justice and the problem will be solved.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren.
The Constitution[‘s]...language is ‘we the people;’ not we the white people. Not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.
The hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.
The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.
The whole of humanity, like the whole of everything else, is ever greater than a part. Men only know themselves by knowing others, and contact is essential to this knowledge.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want...the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
We should welcome...all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples...[and incorporate them] as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship.
