I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

Labor is the true standard of value.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.