It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.