The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.