Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.