Work, Work, Work, Is The Main Thing.

I Must Keep Some Standard Of Principle Fixed Within Myself.

As A Peacemaker The Lawyer Has Superior Opportunity Of Being A Good Man.

I Think The Authors Of That Notable Instrument [the Declaration Of Independence] Intended To Include All Men.

Again I Admonish You Not To Be Turned From Your Stern Purpose Of Defending Your Beloved Country And Its Free Institutions By Any Arguments Urged By Ambitious And Designing Men, But Stand Fast To The Union And The Old Flag.

Slavery Is Founded In The Selfishness Of Man's Nature - Opposition To It Is His Love Of Justice. These Principles Are An Eternal Antagonism; And When Brought Into Collision So Fiercely, As Slavery Extension Brings Them, Shocks And Throes And Convulsions Must Ceaselessly Follow.