I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

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

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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

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