Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.