Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

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

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.