“I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.”
“A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”
“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”
“We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”
“Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.”
“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.”
“Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.”
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
“Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.”
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
“A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
“A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.”
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”
“Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.”
“What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?”
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.”
“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.”