Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.