The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.