Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.