I Would Rather Believe Something And Suffer

You And I Are Now Nearly In Middle Age, And Have Not Yet Become Soured And Shrivelled With The Wear And Tear Of Life. Let Us Pray To Be Delivered From That Condition Where Life And Nature Have No Fresh, Sweet Sensations For Us.

Whatever I May Believe In Theology, I Do Not Believe In The Doctrine Of Vicarious Atonement In Politics.

The Prosperity Which Now Prevails Is Without Parallel In Our History. Fruitful Seasons Have Done Much To Secure It, But They Have Not Done All. The Preservation Of The Public Credit And The Resumption Of Specie Payments, So Successfully Attained By The Administration Of My Predecessors, Have Enabled Our People To Secure The Blessings Which The Seasons Brought.

If There Is One Thing Upon This Earth That Mankind Love And Admire Better Than Another, It Is A Brave Man, - It Is The Man Who Dares To Look The Devil In The Face And Tell Him He Is A Devil.

Nobody But Radicals Have Ever Accomplished Anything In A Great Crisis. Conservatives Have Their Place In The Piping Times Of Peace; But In Emergencies Only Rugged Issue Men Amount To Much.