You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.