Death is a distant rumor to the young.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

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.