Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.