Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.