Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

I am the last President of the United States!

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.