If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.