In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

It's bad. It's damned bad.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.