Quotes by President

The United States government must not undertake to run the churches when an individual in the church or out of it becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

I am rather inclined to silence and whether that be wise or not it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.