The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
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.
I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.