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

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.