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

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

If a man . . . would shake and not be shaken, grip and not be gripped, taking care always to squeeze the hand of his adversary as hard as it squeezed him, then he suffered no inconvenience from it.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.