I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.