As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.

We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.