Frederick Douglass: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, Taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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.