If nations perish, it is not because of their devotion to liberty, but for their disregard of its requirements.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact.

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