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.

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.

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.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.