Victory belongs to the most persevering.
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.