I think I stand where that man stands..

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation..

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim,….

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth..

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else..

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society..

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing..

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail..

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion..

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day..

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should ….

Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism….

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met..

What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?.

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has..

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte ….

One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both..

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise..

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they m….

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration..