Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.