I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

You must have discipline to have fun.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

Her smile put the sunflower to shame.

Everything that is,casts a shadow

It doesn't matter what you've done, but what you're going to do the next game, and that's what I'm focused on.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.