"The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher."

"We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally…"

"Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest in…"

"The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a p…"

"If he had it would have deprived me of two reasons for feeling satisfied with this afternoon - one was that I escaped…"

"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear."

"It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all wh…"

"The only road, the sure road to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilm…"

"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of in…"

"Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want…"