“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by...

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Public opinion in this country is everything

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old