The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I never thought I would be impeached.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country.