We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

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

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.