Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Work, work, work, is the main thing.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

I think I stand where that man stands.