Frederick Douglass: “He saw the evil through no mist or haze, but in a light of infinite brightness, which left no line of its ten thousand…”

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

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.