Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.