Occupation: Former U.S. Senator Birth: February 15, 1845 Death: February 7, 1937
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice..
Men do not fail; they give up trying..
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot..
About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up..