"I am not concerned that you have..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.”

“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.”

“A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”

“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

“Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!”

“Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.”

“You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.”