“Achievement has no color”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”

“I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready.”