May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.