When a man is President, when he holds any public office, questions of merely partisan character sink into absolute insignificance compared with the mighty questions upon which all good Americans are united.

All I had to do was to be able to show them that any measure was for the country's good and I knew they would stand for it.

I can not say how much it means to me to be greeted as I have been greeted by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray in this trip through the Southland.

I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.

Although some times we have difficulties in this country that we have to battle against, and sometimes things that we are not quite satisfied with, yet we are pretty good people.

I want, on behalf of this nation, the peace that comes not to the coward, who cringes for it, but the peace of the just man armed, who asks it as a right.

One thing that, as President of this country, I won't do, is to make a bluff that I can't make good.

We can afford to be divided on questions of mere partisanship.

Treat each man according to his worth as a man.

Hold it not against him that he is either rich or poor.

by their fruits shall ye know them

The poor man who is true to you is the ultimately righteous, and the man who will steal for you will steal from you.

we have a right to expect a peculiar quantity and quality of the service to the public

I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of the United States will in all proper ways seek to see to it that the loose customs...shall not be perverted so as to harm the whole public by giving the criminal an advantage to which he is…

The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.

But if he is rich and crooked hold it against him; if not rich but is crooked, then hold it against him.

We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which will secure to the public an even chance with the criminal—I do not ask any more.

I have a great respect for a good man, and the only one I have greater respect for is a good woman.

I am just a trifle more intent on punishing the Republican offender than the Democrat, because he is my own scoundrel.

The average American is a pretty good fellow.

There is no other people of which history tells which, having passed through such a war as we have passed through, now, after forty years, finds not only that the flag which had been rent asunder is once again whole, without a seam, but…

Every dollar put into the education of either white man or black man, in head, in hand, and in heart, yields rich dividends to the entire community.

Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it.

What we need is the performance of duty, of the ordinary duty that the ordinary man or woman has to meet as he or she lives his or her life.

I will be through now in just two minutes more.