Abraham Lincoln: “It takes not only law, but the enforcement of law to keep it out.”

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.