My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
Abraham LincolnAs a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Abraham LincolnExtemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
Abraham Lincoln