When you get in debt you become a slave.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.