Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

Of all exercises, walking is the best.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.