I Will Be As Harsh As Truth

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.

There Is No Safety Where There Is No Strength; No Strength Without Union; No Union Without Justice; No Justice Where Faith And Truth Are Wanting. The Right To Be Free Is A Truth Planted In The Hearts Of Men.

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.

Our Country Is The World-our Countrymen Are All Mankind.

Be Faithful, Be Vigilant, Be Untiring In Your Efforts To Break Every Yoke, And Let The Oppressed Go Free. Come What May - Cost What It May - Inscribe On The Banner Which You Unfurl To The Breeze, As Your Religious And Political Motto - "no Compromise With Slavery! No Union With Slaveholders