Frederick Douglass: “I wish to speak advisedly, and in order to do this, I have waited till, I trust, experience has brought my opinions to…”

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.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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