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

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.

It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.