If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.