The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty...

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system...

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my...

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive...

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives,...

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.