“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and fo...”

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

“The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to inter...”

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Un...”

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy...”

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”

“Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.”

“My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.”

“What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!”

“I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop ev...”

“Free men are the strongest men.”