"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"Tell my people to keep on going."

"When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything."

"I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home, after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there."

"I would make a good general, for I am not afraid of anything."