These are the qualifications of a good Party man-you must know how to put your Party before yourself, and you must know the occasions when to put nation before Party.

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions of the field as incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy.

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

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true cure is in the next election.