Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.