I Hear The Mournful Wail Of Millions!

Going To Live At Baltimore Laid The Foundation, And Opened The Gateway, To All My Subsequent Prosperity.

Without Culture There Can Be No Growth; Without Exertion, No Acquisition; Without Friction, No Polish; Without Labor, No Knowledge; Without Action, No Progress; And Without Conflict, No Victory. The Man Who Lies Down A Fool At Night, Hoping That He Will Waken Wise In The Morning, Will Rise Up In The Morning As He Laid Down In The Evening.

Abolish Slavery Tomorrow, And Not A Sentence Or Syllable Of The Constitution Need Be Altered. It Was Purposely So Framed As To Give No Claim, No Sanction To The Claim, Of Property In Man. If In Its Origin Slavery Had Any Relation To The Government, It Was Only As The Scaffolding To The Magnificent Structure, To Be Removed As Soon As The Building Was Completed.

It's A Poor Rule That Won't Work Both Ways.

I Was Broken In Body, Soul, And Spirit. My Natural Elasticity Was Crushed, My Intellect Languished, The Disposition To Read Departed, The Cheerful Spark That Lingered About My Eye Died; The Dark Night Of Slavery Closed In Upon Me; And Behold A Man Transformed Into A Brute!