Frederick Douglass: “It made the body more important than the soul; national prosperity more important than national justice.”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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