These political fiends are not half sick enough yet. `Party malice' and not `public good' possesses them entirely.

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

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

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

I think that all of us should hold this one truth in mind: every Republican, everybody he reaches, every independent, every discerning Democrat should be appealed to on the basis that we are truly a middle of-the-road party.

In the twinkling of an eye I found myself without an office, without a seat, without a party, and without an appendix.