Labor is the true standard of value..

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent..

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly es….

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it..

I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as y….

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me..

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well..

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the obje….

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the ….

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending..

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now..

The Constitution is not a suicide pact..

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships..

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scar….

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men a….

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else..

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in num….

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it..

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay..

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (sl….

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this..