Frederick Douglass: “If religion had any effect on his character at all, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.”

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.