The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

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.

Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.