Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.