I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

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

I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance.

What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices.

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.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.