The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.