An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.