Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance...