Frederick Douglass: “The office of speech now is only to point out when, where, and how to strike to the best advantage.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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