Frederick Douglass: “It can call its preachers from among the fishermen, and raise them to power.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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

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