Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.