Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

When you get in debt you become a slave.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.