"Du Bois quotes the German American reformer Carl Schurz, who observed, “Wherever I go-the street, the shop, the house…"

"The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary wa…"

"I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise not to detect the false pride or the da…"

"We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit."

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the deser…"

"I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washingt…"

"The animosities inflamed by a four years' war, and its distressing incidents, cannot be easily overcome. But they ext…"

"The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too.…"

"What is the rule of honor to be observed by a power so strongly and so advantageously situated as this Republic is? O…"

"Ideale sind gleich den Sternen. Du wirst sie nicht mit der Hand berühren, aber gleich dem Seefahrer auf den Wüsten de…"