Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

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