The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

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?

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.