 | American Anti-Slavery Society - 1861 - 352 lehte
...inflexible;" holding up before the house the first number of the Liberator, and reading from it — "I am in earnest! I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard;" then adding, " That is from the first number of the Liberator,... | |
 | Felix Gregory De Fontaine - 1861 - 78 lehte
...emancipation in the eyes of the nation, within sight of Bunker Hill, and in the birthplace of liberty. I am in earnest ; I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch. I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue lift... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 582 lehte
...profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster ! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I will not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and I will be heard!" [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 588 lehte
...profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster ! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I will not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and I will be heard!" [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 lehte
...Christian Examiner, at Boston, issued the first number of the " Liberator," making the declaration — " I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be Jieard." He borrowed the type and press of the office he worked... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 lehte
...in my hand, and in which he announces his intention to prosecute this war upon slavery to the end. " I am in earnest. I will not equivocate ; I will not excuse ; I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard." That is from the first number of the Liberator, published... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1864 - 580 lehte
...profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster ! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, " I am in earnest, — I will not equivocate, — I will not excuse, — I will not retreat a single inch, — and I will be heard!" [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two... | |
 | British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 lehte
...language — but it is a very common complaint indeed — and he said in his first number: — "I am aware that many object to the severity of my language, but...not excuse, I will not retract a single inch, and 1 will be heard." And that, after all, expresses to a great extent tho future course of his life. But... | |
 | John Bright - 1868 - 906 lehte
...language—which is a very common complaint indeed—and he said in his first number:— ' I am aware that many object to the severity of my language, but...not excuse, I will not retract a single inch, and I will be heard.' And that, after all, expresses to a great extent the future course of his life. But... | |
 | John Bright - 1868 - 566 lehte
...— which is a very common complaint indeed — and he said in his first number : — ' I am aware that many object to the severity of my language, but...not excuse, I will not retract a single inch, and I will be heard.' And that, after all, expresses to a great extent the future course of his life. But... | |
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I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD. 
