In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

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

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.

To the victors belong the spoils.

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.