Elevate those guns a little lower.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might in some degree disturb the security which religion nowadays enjoys in this country in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.