My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others