The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.