Never change horses in midstream.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.