The Presidency Is Not A Bed Of

The Constitution Itself, Plainly Written As It Is, The Safeguard Of Our Federative Compact, The Offspring Of Concession And Compromise, Binding Together In The Bonds Of Peace And Union This Great And Increasing Family Of Free And Independent States, Will Be The Chart By Which I Shall Be Directed.

General Taylor Is, I Have No Doubt, A Well-meaning Old Man. He Is, However, Uneducated, Exceedingly Ignorant Of Public Affairs, And I Should Judge, Of Very Ordinary Capacity.

Foreign Powers Do Not Seem To Appreciate The True Character Of Our Government.

We Must Ever Mandate The Principle That The People Of This Continent Alone Have The Right To Decide Their Own Destiny.

If A Man . . . Would Shake And Not Be Shaken, Grip And Not Be Gripped, Taking Care Always To Squeeze The Hand Of His Adversary As Hard As It Squeezed Him, Then He Suffered No Inconvenience From It.