There is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man's brow.

Too many piglets not enough tits.

Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon.

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.