As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men and all nations.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.