If you have never failed you have never lived.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.