Quotes by President

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the declaration of independence.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.