"Our political problem now is, "Can we..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.”

“Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.”

“Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.”

“We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!”

“The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.”