My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.