There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.