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

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.