He who represents himself has a fool for a client

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.