This nation under God

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

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.