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.

Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States.

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

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

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.

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

The Presidency is not a bed of roses.