What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.