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.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.