Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.