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.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

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

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.