'Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.'

'Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.'

'One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed p…

'A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Jo…