The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

You must be careful how you walk and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

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.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.