"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."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."