You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.