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

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.

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

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

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.

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.

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