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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

Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again.

True kindness ennobles the giver

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.