Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

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