Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

It's bad. It's damned bad.

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.