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.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

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

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

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 . . . .

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.