I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.