Frederick Douglass: “Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to…”

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

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

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

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