Frederick Douglass: “The rule of life for individuals and for nations is the same.”

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

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 drive him.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.