Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.