While Men Inhabiting Different Parts Of This

In A Body [like Congress] Where There Are More Than One Hundred Talking Lawyers, You Can Make No Calculation Upon The Termination Of Any Debate.

You Have Summoned Me In My Weakness. You Must Sustain Me In Your Strength.

Frequently The More Trifling The Subject, The More Animated And Protracted The Discussion.

In Expressing Briefly My Views Upon An Important Subject Which Has Recently Agitated The Nation..., I Fervently Hope That The Question Is At Rest And That No Sectional Or Ambitious Or Fanatical Excitement May Again Threaten The Durability Of Our Institutions.

I Cannot Find Any Authority In The Constitution For Public Charity.