Teach him to deny himself.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.