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

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or even a smaller number, of separate communities, we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions; communications between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off; our sons made soldiers to deluge with blood the fields they now till in peace...The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union.

Their object is disunion.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.