Quotes by David Davis

He [Lincoln] had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term - he had faith in laws, principles, causes and effects.

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

The Constitution of the United States is a law, for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

The old woman looked as we would suppose the witch Endor looked - She had a grown daughter who waited on the table - table greasy - table cloth greasy - floor greasy, and everything else ditto.

The proposition is this: that in a time of war the commander of an armed force... has the power... to suspend all civil rights and their remedies, and subject citizens... to the rule of his will... If true, [our] republican government is a failure, and there is an end of liberty regulated by law.

This thing of traveling in Illinois, and being eaten up by bed bugs, and mosquitoes (fleas you know don't trouble me much) is not what it's cracked up to be.