With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

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

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.