Force Is All Conquering, But It's Victories

In Giving Freedom To The Slave, We Assure Freedom To The Free.

Were It Not For My Little Jokes, I Could Not Bear The Burdens Of This Office.

Those Who Deny Freedom To Others Deserve It Not For Themselves.

I Was Born Feb. 12, 1809, In Hardin County, Kentucky. My Parents Were Both Born In Virginia, Of Undistinguished Families--second Families, Perhaps I Should Say. My Mother, Who Died In My Tenth Year, Was Of A Family Of The Name Of Hanks.... My Father ... Removed From Kentucky To ... Indiana, In My Eighth Year.... It Was A Wild Region, With Many Bears And Other Wild Animals Still In The Woods. There I Grew Up.... Of Course When I Came Of Age I Did Not Know Much. Still Somehow, I Could Read, Write, And Cipher ... But That Was All.

If I Were Two-faced, Would I Be Wearing This One?