Frederick Douglass: “The cause lost in the war is the cause regained in peace, and the cause gained in war is the cause lost in peace.”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.