Quotes by President

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights that is the way of a whole human being.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.