No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

Dependence leads to subservience.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.