The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.