Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.