We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.