If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.