In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

There will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the Government. The Government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I have been unwilling to go beyond the pressure of necessity in the unusual exercise of power.

So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.