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

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people.