A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

If the American people could learn what I know of the fierce hatred of the priests of Rome against our institutions, our schools, our most sacred rights, and our so dearly bought liberties, they would drive them out as traitors.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

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 confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.