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

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

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

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.