If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.