All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet