I think I stand where that man stands.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.