These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.