Frederick Douglass: “Something must, however, be pardoned to the spirit of liberty, especially in those who have but recently acquired…”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.