To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
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.
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.