I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.