I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.