All Quotes

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

If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements. ”

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way. ”

Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest. ”

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

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free. ”

Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains. ”

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place. ”

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

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn. ”