Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

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

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.