I Will Be As Harsh As Truth

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.

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.

Slavery Will Not Be Overthrown Without Excitement, A Most Tremendous Excitement.

Little Boldness Is Needed To Assail The Opinions And Practices Of Notoriously Wicked Men; But To Rebuke Great And Good Men For Their Conduct, And To Impeach Their Discernment, Is The Highest Effort Of Moral Courage.

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.