My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
Abraham LincolnIf all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
Abraham LincolnIf as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.
Abraham Lincoln