I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

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.

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.