Frederick Douglass: “During this time, my copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, and pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk.”

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

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.