If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

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.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.