Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.