No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.