A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; 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.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry