Frederick Douglass: “Formerly, devotion to slavery was the condition upon which the success of the Democratic party was based.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.

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

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.