The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

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.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

We cannot escape history.