The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

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

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

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.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

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

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.