“My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.”
“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.”
“I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse --I will not retreat a single inch --and I will be heard!”
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”