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I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter.
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.
I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.
The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.
I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.
I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.