Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.