Quotes by President

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Human nature will not change in any future great national trial compared with the men of this we shall have as weak and as strong as silly and as wise as bad and as good.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.