I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation procl….

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war..

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them..

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him..

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the….

Care for him who shall have borne the battle.

Too big to cry too young to laugh..

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds..

I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I ….

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you hav….

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms..

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the….

When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not ….

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored..

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed..

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live..

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you….

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest..

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'..

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death..

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.