In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Human-nature will not change.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.