Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.