I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.