Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham LincolnWhat is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham LincolnAnd then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?
Abraham LincolnI cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.
Abraham Lincoln