Frederick Douglass: “With all its faults it is the best party now in existence.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.