Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.

I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.