I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?