Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.