Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.