No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it