Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.