The will of God prevails.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.