Abraham Lincoln — "I have been a good boy, and have not been in anybody's way, or in anybody's debt…"

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood, of the Revolution. Let us make our name of American, the kind…"

"I shall try to do my duty, and I shall try to do it conscientiously."

"Permit me to say that, in my humble judgment, I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."