In adversity man is saved by hope.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.