Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Great lives never go out; they go on.