Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.

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

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.