Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

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

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.