It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.