I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I...fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?