When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship if they were deprived of their beer, for example.

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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