To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.