A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Shall we stop this bleeding?

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.