"My early life, and indeed the whole of my life, has been one of toil and hardship."

"It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have inherited from our fathers."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward."

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the…"

"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."