Bad promises are better broken than kept.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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.