Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.