Without a name, perhaps without a reason why I should have a name, there has fallen upon me a task such as did not rest even upon the Father of his country.

Stand by your principles; stand by your guns; and victory complete and permanent is sure at the last.

The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.