Journalist

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

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

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.

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

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