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

The seed of revolution is repression.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.