Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"