Frederick Douglass: “They, dear fellows, found it much more agreeable to talk of the principles of liberty as glittering generalities, than…”

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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