If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.