Essay · NewspaperI will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.William Lloyd GarrisonTo the Public · 1831★ 5.2
EssayEvery now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes1831★ 3.6
SpeechThere is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unjust judge to-day.Daniel Webster1831★ 3.5
NovelInvention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.Mary ShelleyFrankenstein · 1831★ 2.1
NovelHatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.Honore de BalzacLa Comedie humaine · 1831★ 2.0
NewspaperI am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard!William Lloyd GarrisonThe Liberator · 1831★ 1.9
Essay · NewspaperLet Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.William Lloyd GarrisonTo the Public · 1831★ 1.9
LectureIt is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.Richard WhatelyIntroductory Lectures on Political Economy · 1831★ 1.9
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1831★ 1.0
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