Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.