Quotes by President

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.