Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

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.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.