The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible.

life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.