To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man