Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.