The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.