Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at least have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of...
If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.
There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your ow...
Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawk...
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration...
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.