When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

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

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.