I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Labor is the true standard of value.

Too big to cry too young to laugh.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.