“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

“Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.”

“Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”

“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”

“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.”