I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Towering genius distains a beaten path.