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.

Were all the worshippers of the gold calf to memorialize me and request a restoration of the deposits I would cut my right hand from my body before I would do such an act. The gold calf may be worshipped by others but as for myself I serve the Lord.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.