Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.

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.