You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

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

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.