I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.