"My politics are short and sweet like an old woman's dance."
"I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women, were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during the war."
"You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to injure him."
"The severest justice may not always be the best policy."
"I always plucked a thorn and planted a rose when in my power."
"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."