If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.

We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.