Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

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

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

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

I have always been afraid of banks.

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.

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.