I will be as harsh as truth and as 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.

Our country is the world--our countrymen are mankind.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.