I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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.