Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

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

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

This nation under God

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.