Human-nature will not change.

It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.