Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.