These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

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 esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Some day I shall be President.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.