I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.