Adlai Stevenson: “Take him all in all, we may not look upon his like again.”

If Franklin, Wilson, Sherman, King, Randolph, Rutledge, Mason, Pinckney, Hamilton, Madison, and their associates had rendered no public service other than as builders of the Constitution, that alone would entitle them to the measureless…

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

Judgment and prudence should be mixed in equal parts with love and affection in the transaction, to secure a lasting and happy union.

The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.