Quotes by lawyer

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.