American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.