You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.