If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Human-nature will not change.

An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.

I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.