Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.