You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.