Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.