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; asbad and good.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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.'