Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.