My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

If you love something, set it free.