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

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!