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.

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

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.

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

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.