All Distinctions Of Birth Or Of Rank

Under The Benignant Providence Of Almighty God The Representatives Of The States And Of The People Are Again Brought Together To Deliberate For The Public Good. The Gratitude Of The Nation To The Sovereign Arbiter Of All Human Events Should Be Commensurate With The Boundless Blessings Which We Enjoy. Peace, Plenty, And Contentment Reign Throughout Our Borders, And Our Beloved Country Presents A Sublime Moral Spectacle To The World.

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.

No President Who Performs His Duties Faithfully And Conscientiously Can Have Any Leisure. If He Entrusts The Details And Smaller Matters To Subordinates Constant Errors Will Occur. I Prefer To Supervise The Whole Operations Of The Government Myself Rather Than Entrust The Public Business To Subordinates, And This Makes My Duties Very Great.

There Is More Selfishness And Less Principle Among Members Of Congress Than I Had Any Conception Of, Before I Became President Of The U.s.

With Me It Is Exceptionally True That The Presidency Is No Bed Of Roses.