Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.

You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak