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...
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
If they do kill me I shall never die another death.
Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relis...
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which w...
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.
I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.