Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream.