I think I stand where that man stands.

He who represents himself has a fool for a client

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.