I am not an accomplished lawyer.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

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

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.