I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

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