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

Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.

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.

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