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

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop