You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm..

Bad promises are better broken than kept..

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his re….

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions..

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of pol….

Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure….

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or ….

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators ….

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the he….

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But….

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the s….

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit….

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army..

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend..

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The li….

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result..

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid r….

I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save th….