The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

Influence is not government.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.