It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.