I'd Rather Be Right Than President.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

The Imposition Of Taxes Has Its Limits. There Is A Maximum Which Cannot Be Transcended. Suppose The Citizen To Be Taxed By The General Government To The Utmost Extent Of His Ability, Or A Thing As Much As It Can Possibly Bear, And The State Imposes A Tax At The Same Time, Which Authority Is To Take It?

I Had Rather Be Right Than Be President.

I Have No Commiseration For Princes. My Sympathies Are Reserved For The Great Mass Of Mankind ….

If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision, You Had Better Abandon The Ocean.