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"There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
"I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith."
"Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her"
"A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor."
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it."
"Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together."
"Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other."
"Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt."
"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good."
"I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference."
"I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it."
"Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand."
"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."
"Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation."
"Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice."
"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."
"It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion."
"In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?"
"He who represents himself has a fool for a client"
"Friendship is the start for what you call love."