The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.