"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."
"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."
"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
"Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
"Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."