Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.