The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

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

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.