 Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. |
| The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. |
| An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. |
| If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. |
| I had rather be right than be President. |
| Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. |
| Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. |
| I would rather be right than President. |
| Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. |
| Statistics are no substitute for judgment. |
| I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. |
