Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, -- the most sublime & benevolent, but…

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

They believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the alta…

'This is the kind of leader we should try to emulate because he was true to himself and rose to the occasion when faced with daunting challenges always proving…

The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must…

I believe Tony Blair is an out-and-out rascal, terminally untrustworthy and close to being unhinged. I said from the start that there was something wrong in hi…