Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.