Thank God, I also am an American!

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.