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 pu….

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toas….

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out..

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me..

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns,….

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Weal….

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; a….

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

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and tryin….

I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of….

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or co….

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

After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated,….

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell..

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey..

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes..

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets..

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the….

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 dip….

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see..

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers..