There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her