"I have no wealthy or popular relations..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.”

“I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.”

“If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.”

“Nonviolence is impossible without humility.”

“He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.”

“Remember that I too am mortal.”

“Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.”

“Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.”

“Opportunities? I make opportunities.”