Frederick Douglass: “It is a question whether men shall be protected by law, or be left to the mercy of cyclones of anarchy and bloodshed.”

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.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.