Quotes by lawyer

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty and i intend no modification of my oftexpressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

The will of god prevails in great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of god both may be and one must be wrong god cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time in the present civil war it is quite possible that gods purpose is something different from the purpose of either partyand yet the human instrumentalities working just as they do are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

I would rather be a little nobody than to be an evil somebody.