“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”

“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.”

“That which is not just is not law.”

“With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.”

“The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.”

“You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.”

“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”

“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.”

“I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.”

“I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.”