A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.

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.