Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

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