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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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