The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

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

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.