Charles Carleton Coffin > Quotes

“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.”
― Charles Carleton Coffin, The Story of Liberty: So You Will Comprehend What Liberty Has Cost, ...and What It Is Worth

“For many years they plotted against the government,—threatening to destroy it if they could not have what they demanded. They looked with utter contempt upon the hard-working men of the North. They determined to rule or ruin.”
― Charles Carleton Coffin, My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field