Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

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

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.