I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

The same facts impress us differently.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.