I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole.