The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.