Frederick Douglass: “It is not a bad thing to have individuals or nations do right though they do so from selfish motives.”

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

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.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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