Frederick Douglass: “Elsewhere we may belong to individual States, but here we belong to the whole United States.”

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

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.