Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.