The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.