Frederick Douglass: “My success was due to address rather than courage; to good luck rather than bravery.”

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

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.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.