Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.