When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

History is not history unless it is the truth.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.