With malice towards none; with charity for all.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

I will either be America's greatest president or its last.