If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.