You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

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

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.

The health you enjoy is largely your choice

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.