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

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.