Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.