The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

This nation under God

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.