The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sober second thought - of the people.