From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Their object is disunion.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

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]