Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.

A little bump in the road is just a bump. There's more ahead until you reach your destination.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Britain, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G-7 and the UN Security Council, wants to leave the EU. That weakens us and it weakens Britain.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.