We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.