The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.