What Has Ever Threatened Our Liberty And

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.

I Claim Not To Have Controlled Events, But Confess Plainly That Events Have Controlled Me.

I Do Not Think Much Of A Man Who Is Not Wiser Today Than He Was Yesterday.

Never Do Anything For Anyone Who Can Just As Well Do It Themself

Our Progress In Degeneracy Appears To Me To Be Pretty Rapid.