[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

By all means, don't say, "if I can," say "I will."

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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.