..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.