I am the last President of the United States!
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
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.