"Every man is eloquent once in his..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.”

“All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

“No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.”

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”

“Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.”

“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”

“Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.”

“When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”