I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.