The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.