The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

My policy is to have no policy.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

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 never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.