Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.