He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

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

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.