The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.