The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

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

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.