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

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—b…"

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"To sell or enslave any colored person is a crime."

"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 remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."