I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Achievement has no color

There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.