Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

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.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.