The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

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.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I want in all cases to do right.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!