I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance