Frederick Douglass: “Rather bear those ills we had Than fly to others which we knew not of.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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

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