This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

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

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

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

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

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.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.