Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men there should be no pretext for anxiety touching the protection of the freedmen in their rights or their security in the enjoyment of their privileges under the Constitution and its amendments. All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their improvement. The fact that they are citizens entitles them to all the rights due to that relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations, and responsibilities.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

Honor lies in honest toil.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.