Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

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

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.