Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.