Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Education is the mother of leadership.
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.