I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

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