The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise….

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man ….

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his….

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one..

I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or….

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world..

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly..

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is ….

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are p….

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given..

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love..

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded….

There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manife….

The bud of victory is always in the truth..

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decora….

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of ….

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues..

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind societ….

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith..

Great lives never go out; they go on..

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more..