To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.