Frederick Douglass: “He has the numbers and the intelligence to control and direct.”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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.