I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.