Abraham Lincoln — "I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."

"I fear that the people are not yet ready for a black man to be president."

"I have no prejudice against the Southern people. They are not to blame for the institution of slavery among them. They are in the condition of a man with a wen on his neck. It is an excrescence, but y…"

"I have got a system of my own. If I have a piece of work to do, I will do it."

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of …"

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the…"