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

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Writing is the great invention of the world.