"I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is possible for each of you to attain to that."

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is rig…"

"With Malice toward none, with Charity for all, with Firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in..."

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."

"I could not feel that I had done my duty to the country if I should permit myself to be prevailed upon to make any such appointment."