Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!

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

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.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.

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.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.