“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

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.

Force is all conquering, but it’s victories are short lived.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Every man’s happiness is his own responsibility.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.