It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe