The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.