It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.