The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

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

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.