I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.