The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.