It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

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

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...

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.