"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."

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."

"Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?"

"Present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure."

"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."

"On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory."