No, I Make No Pretension To Patriotism.

I Have No Accurate Knowledge Of My Age, Never Having Seen Any Authentic Record Containing It.

[...] Allowing Only Ordinary Ability And Opportunity, We May Explain Success Mainly By One Word And That Word Is Work! Work!! Work!!! Work!!!! Not Transient And Fitful Effort, But Patient, Enduring, Honest, Unremitting And Indefatigable Work Into Which The Whole Heart Is Put[...] There Is No Royal Road To Perfection.

My Great And Exceeding Joy Over These Stupendous Achievements, Especially Over The Abolition Of Slavery (which Had Been The Deepest Desire And The Great Labor Of My Life), Was Slightly Tinged With A Feeling Of Sadness.

I Love The Pure, Peaceable, And Impartial Christianity Of Christ; I Therefore Hatethe Corrupt, Slaveholding, Women-whipping, Cradle-plundering, Partial, And Hypocritical Christianity Of This Land. Indeed, I Can See No Reason, But The Most Deceitful One, For Calling The Religion Of This Land Christianity. I Look Upon It As The Climax Of All Misnomers, The Boldest Of All Frauds, And The Grossest Of All Libels.

Those Who Profess To Favor Freedom, And Yet Depreciate Agitation, Are Men Who Want Crops Without Plowing Up The Ground.