The only true corrective of Constitutional abuses is education.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.