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

Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is the mainspring of patriotism.

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.