Abraham Lincoln — "I am not ashamed to confess that I am not a Know-Nothing or that I am a Know-Som…"

"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individu…"

"I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

"Upon the subject of education, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in."

"Negroes have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but not a right to social and political equality with whites."

"I have been a good boy, and have not been in anybody's way, or in anybody's debt."