Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

My policy is to have no policy.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.