Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.