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.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.