Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.