My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.