Quotes by President

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I am rather inclined to silence.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.