All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.