A Resignation Is A Grave Act; Never

There Came A Time In My Life When I Doubted The Divinity Of The Scriptures, And I Resolved As A Lawyer And A Judge I Would Try The Book As I Would Try Anything In The Courtroom, Taking Evidence For And Against. It Was A Long, Serious And Profound Study And Using The Same Principles Of Evidence In This Religious Matter As I Always Do In Secular Matters, I Have Come To The Decision That The Bible Is A Supernatural Book, That It Has Come From God, And That The Only Safety For The Human Race Is To Follow Its Teachings.

Once I Should Have Been, If Not Satisfied, Partially, At Least, Contented With Suffrage For The Intelligent And Those Who Have Been Soldiers; Now I Am Convinced That Universal Suffrage Is Demanded By Sound Policy And Impartial Justice.

What Can Be Indissoluble If A Perpetual Union, Made More Perfect, Is Not?

How Wrong It Is For Those Who Love, Not To Express Their Love.

The Law Of The Creator, Which Invests Every Human Being With An Inalienable Title To Freedom, Cannot Be Repealed By Any Interior Law Which Asserts That Man Is Property.