I've always been politically minded and against the status quo.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

I have enlisted for the permanent success of the Republican cause; and, for this object, I shall labor faithfully in the ranks, unless, as I think not probable, the judgment of the party shall assign me a different position.

I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.