The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.