Frederick Douglass: “His heart must be harder than stone, that could look upon these unmoved.”

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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.