It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

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.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"