The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Heaven will be heaven only if my wife is there.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

I not only rejoice, but congratulate my beloved country Texas is reannexed, and the safety, prosperity, and the greatest interest of the whole Union is secured by this great and important national act.