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

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.

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

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

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.

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.

Under the blessings of Divine Providence... It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.