You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.