We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.