Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

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

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.

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.