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.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.
The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.
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.
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
That which is not just is not law.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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.