Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
If we abide by the principles taught by the bible, our country will go on prospering.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Wisdom begins at the end.
I shall enter on no encomium upon massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
I was born an american; I live an american; I shall die an american.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Liberty and union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
I was born an american I will live an american I shall die an american.
Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the legislature is in session.
I was born an american; I will live an american; I shall die an american.
I did expect a reduction [but] 40% is probably a little higher than I would have guessed.
