I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.