Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

To have a style is to be stuck.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.