If Any Of My Men

Partisanship Should Be Kept Out Of The Pulpit... The Blindest Of Partisans Are Preachers. All Politicians Expect And Find More Candor, Fairness, And Truth In Politicians Than In Partisan Preachers. They Are Not Replied To - No Chance To Reply To Them.... The Balance Wheel Of Free Institutions Is Free Discussion. The Pulpit Allows No Free Discussion.

My Policy Is Trust, Peace, And To Put Aside The Bayonet. I Do Not Think The Wise Policy Is To Decide Contested Elections In The States By The Use Of The National Army.

He [william Merritt Chase] Is, I Suspect, Getting A Very Truthful Likeness. I Would Like It Better If [it] Was Not So Gray, So Cramped About The Eyes, And Not Quite So Corpulent. But Is This Not Quarreling With Nature?

Youth, However, Is A Defect That She Is Fast Getting Away From And May Perhaps Be Entirely Rid Of Before I Shall Want Her.

I Am A Freeman And Jolly As A Beggar.