“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“Let no feeling of discouragement preyupon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”

“We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your views, and you may say anything you like about me, if that will help... When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

“when you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”