In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I was raised to farm work.