- “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
- “I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”
- “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”
- “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
- “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
- “Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
- “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
- “No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.”
- “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
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