The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.
I keep my overhead as low as I can.
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.