"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..."

"You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is…"

"I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I cannot be wrong; and yet, how many think I am!"

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"