Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

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

The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.