"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."

"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…"

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."