Frederick Douglass: “Children have their sorrows as well as men and women; and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them.”

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.