"I would be damned in time and eternity if I turned my back on the black soldiers."
"The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon the vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant t..."
"with malice towards none, with charity towards all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right."
"We will either nobodies save or meanly lose the last best hope on Earth."
"I will be damned in time and eternity if I went back on my word."
"If Doom and downfall ever come to America, it will not come from monsters abroad, it will come from the monsters within, who are here."
"To do for the people what they cannot do for themselves."
"Citizens, we will not escape history. Do you want to be looked at in the lens of that backward look 10 years from now and defend what you did when in fact, we are losing 10s of thousands of lives that..."
"He said, to appeal to the 'better angels of our nature.'"
"I've got to go out and get my public opinion bath."
"The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves."
"Most governments have been based, practically on the denial of the equal rights of men . . . Ours began by affirming those rights."