All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
I like the noise of democracy.
Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.