If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?