I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.