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A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.