How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I want in all cases to do right.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.