Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.