With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .