If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.