The nourishment is palatable.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.