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.

From the day of the Declaration...they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

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

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

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.