With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.