The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.