But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish ….

Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the f….

I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some de….

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..

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

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, a….

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been a….

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery..

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents..

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They hav….

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty..

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confou….

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body..

Their object is disunion..

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but ….

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger..

The murderer only takes the life of the parent and leaves his character as a goodly heritage to his children, whilst the slanderer takes away his goo….

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well..

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane an….

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corrupti….

To extraordinary powers of labor, both mental and physical, he unites that tact and judgement which are requisite to the successful direction of such….