Quotes by President

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Never regret what you don't write.

The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor they managed to eat their bread leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated this was not an insupportable evil to the working bees so long as the class of drones remained very small but now especially in these free states nearly all are educatedquite too nearly all to leave the labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole it follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor otherwise education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil no country can sustain in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers the great majority must labor at something productive.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Let us at all times remember that all american citizens are brothers of a common country and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that i strongly favor colonization.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.