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

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

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.

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.