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.

Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn.

I have always been afraid of banks.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

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 safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key and bolt the door at once.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.