As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.