Frederick Douglass: “If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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

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

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