If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.