When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.