The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.