Frederick Douglass: “Why should its existence be prolonged one hour?”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.