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

I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.