Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.