He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.