My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it should not be. Not of our whole life, for instance, for that would be to be born a slave-not even of a very large portion of it.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.