I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

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

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.