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

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...

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

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.