Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.