You cannot fail unless you quit.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.