I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

I can’t die but once.

I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.

I venture only where God send

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.

You’ll be free or die!

Never wound a snake; kill it.

I never lost a passenger.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over...

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and...

I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.