In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

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

It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?