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.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes.

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.