You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

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

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.