Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

It's time for me to go. But I would rather stay.

Honor is better than honors.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.