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

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.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

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.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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.