You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.