While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,... I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored..., the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, or you are not the President of The National University Law School. If you are its President I wish to say to you that I ...have been passed through the curriculum of study of that school, and am entitled to, and demand my Diploma. If you are not its President then I ask you to take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wish to say that, in so far as I can, I hope to promote the enactment of further legislation of this character. There's not...hing else one can say about me--I'm superfluous, in a word. A supernumerary--that's all. Nature evidently didn't count on my appearance, and consequently treated me as an unexpected, uninvited guest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society... is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to a...ppoint a commission.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I]t forged ahead to become a full-fledged metropolis, with 143 faro games, 30 saloons, 4 banks, 27 produce stores, 3 express offi...ces--and an arena for bull-and-bear fights, which, described by Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune, is said to have given Wall Street its best-known phrases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution right along industria...l lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »