Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.