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.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

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

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 . . . .

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.