Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.