The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.