Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.