What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

I have always been afraid of banks.

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

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

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.