The Less Government Interferes With Private Pursuits,

Is It Possible To Be Anything In This Country Without Being A Politician?

The United States Have Fulfilled In Good Faith All Their Treaty Stipulations With The Indian Tribes, And Have In Every Other Instance Insisted Upon A Like Performance Of Their Obligations.

My Conviction Of The Necessity Of Further Legislative Provisions For The Safe-keeping And Disbursement Of The Public Moneys And My Opinion In Regard To The Measures Best Adapted To The Accomplishment Of Those Objects Have Been Already Submitted To You.

No Evil Can Result From Its [slavery's] Inhibition More Pernicious Than Its Toleration.

It Is Easier To Do A Job Right Than To Explain Why You Didn't.