"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country call me is a adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."

-Martin Van Buren 

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"

- Thomas Paine