Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.