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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.