Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives...

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the...

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Disunion by force is treason.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the...

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.

To the victors belong the spoils.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view...

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.