I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

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.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

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