Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

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.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

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 leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.