How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.