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

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented whether the people of the United States are to govern through representatives chosen by their unbiased suffrages or whether the money and power of a great corporation are to be secretly exerted to influence their judgment and control their decisions.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

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.

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.