Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

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

Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.

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