Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.

I'm afraid I'm elected.

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.