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 president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

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

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.

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.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.