"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."
"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."