I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

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

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.